. >> gilbert had thought he had done such a great job that the u.s. capitol should be moved so that people would have a better view of the court. that was his view. i think he did create a beautiful building, but there is no way the capital is going to be moved to provide a better view. >> gilbert worked in what is essentially a sort of french classicism. he was very serious and his intentions to create a house and a symbolic house for the third branch of government that expressed the seriousness of what we were doing, the authority in which the third branch should be invested and authority really to work for what was right. >> the supreme court justices are not shy and some of the justices felt that the new building was too grand, was to grandio search . chief justice stone has alleged said to say that the justices were nine black beatles in the temple of karmac and they should right in each morning on elephants. >> setting a record with the amount of marble used in construction, when it opened in 1935, seven of the nine sitting justices refused to m